Who I Am R.W. Emerson once said, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Being myself has what shaped me into the person I am today. My passion for cheer, my love for children, and my unique personality are examples of what has shaped me into the person I am today. Although I have only cheered for a short amount of time, I can tell it has affected my life and who I am today. Cheer has taught me to be more outgoing. Whether
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I sit in a cozy living room with a book held open before me, yet the tranquil atmosphere does nothing to ease my restless mind. Oblivious to the storm outside, my glazed eyes stare straight through the hieroglyphics on the page to the remote corner of my mind where vulnerabilities and qualms reside. Like a broken record, my mind replays this evening over and over, as if I’m subconsciously trying to find the instant when the building hostility could have been reversed and our argument turned into
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By the time I was 12-years- old, I had been figure skating for the past six years of my life. I wasn’t that great. That was something I already knew but it was something I continued to do for the fun of it. Initially, when I was around six-years-old, I wanted to be a professional figure-skater, which was similar to all the other little kids who wanted to be an astronaut, ballerina, or olympic gymnast. It wasn’t necessarily realistic, especially for a Hawaii girl, but my parents still got me a pair
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I have always believed that I was destined to do great things. I went from being an ESL speaker to becoming one of the best speakers in my high school and community. I did so well in high school that I was given the honor of being recognized as an academic honor student and community leader by the school board, but I wasn’t always this motivated. My aunt, Heriti was the motivation behind all my achievements in life. She took me in as her own, because my parents were unfortunately not able to be
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There are always going to be people who tell you what you should do and who you should become; parents, teachers, siblings, grandparents. Everyone always wants to chime in on the person that they expect you to be. When in reality none of them have to live your life for you, none of them get to become you, so in all seriousness, why do they get a vote? Why do we allow the important, influential people in our lives to make us feel small, inferior, and intimidated based on their expectations? I went
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Socrates declared that to understand the mysteries of the universe, one must know himself, and there’s no better tutor than life itself. It’s true that life teaches us in mysterious ways, and often what we expect is not what we get. But what stays with us is the experience obtained during the process. We can learn from it and strive for a better future, or we can blame others for being the reason of our failure and drown ourselves in the pool of sorrow. There have been many experiences in my life
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Seeing Through New Eyes “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”- Albert Einstein I have struggled in my math classes through the course of my education. Test days were always days filled with stress and anxiety. Though I have always paid attention in class and have been a relatively good student, I would always worry that I did not know the test material well enough. My final report cards always
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It took me fifteen years to realize what an amazing inspiration my father has been on my life. He is the type of individual who has thoughtful dialogue about which artist he would most want to have his portrait painted by, the kind of leader in the community who sits on every board of every major project to that assists locally impoverished residents, and the kind of father who always found time to play and be with his children. My father’s enthusiasm for learning, sense of charity and strong leadership
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One of my mother’s many nicknames for me is pest. A pest for her flowerbeds to be exact. As a child I would often pluck flowers from the garden and proceed to dissect them on the front porch. This was the start of my intrigue for the natural world. As a seventh grader, I started taking pond water to school to look at them under the microscope. That was the year my teacher assigned Fever 1793. This young adult novel by Laurie Anderson about the 1793 yellow fever epidemic ignited my passion for bacterium
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Advance Placement is something I know I will be able to succeed in. This is a path that my parents and I want me to follow. Participating in advanced/honors classes throughout most of middle school and beginning of high school taught me the skills and ethic that I will need to gain more knowledge from a excelled classroom. Computer Science both needs skills in science and in computers which I have experience with. AP class have a important impact on how I can further my career. I chose to apply
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